The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                  
                                       [6-text p 357] 
                                    
                                    And whan I hadde geten vnto me
                                  
                                    By maistry al þe souereynete
                                  
                                    And þat he sayde myn owne trewe wif
                                  
                                    Do as þe list in term of al þy lif
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                                    kepe þyn honour and kep eek myn estat [folio 97a] 
                                  
                                    And after þat day we neuer had debat
                                  
                                    God help me so I was to him as kynde
                                  
                                    As eny wyf fro Denmark vnto Inde
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                                    And also trewe was he vnto me
                                  
                                    I pray to god þat sitte in mageste
                                  
                                    So blesse his soule for his mercy deere
                                  
                                    Now wol I say my tale if ȝe wol heere [[No gap in the MS.]] 
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[The Wrangle between the Summoner and Friar.]

                                    
                                      ¶ The Frere lough when he had herd al þis [¶ Here makith þe frere an interpre|tacion of þe wyfes tale /] 
                                    
                                      Now dame quod he so haue I ioye or blis
                                    
                                      This is a long preambel [[or parambel]]  of a tale
                                    
                                      And whan þe Sompnour herd þe frere gale
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                                      Lo quod þe sompnour for goddes armes tuo
                                    
                                      A frer wol entremet him euermo
                                    
                                      lo goode men a flie and eek a frere
                                    
                                      woln falle in euery dissche and matiere
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                                      what spekst þou of . perambulacioun
                                    
                                      what ambil . or trot . or pees or go sit doun
                                    
                                      Thou lettest oure disport in þis matere
                                    
                                      Ȝe woltow so sir sompnour quod þe frere
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                                      Now by my fay I schal er þat I go
                                    
                                      Telle of a sompnour such a tale or tuo
                                    
                                      That alle þe folk/ schuln laughen in þis place /
                                    
                                      Now ellis frere I byschrew þy face
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                                      Quod þis Sompnour and I byschrewe me
                                    
                                      But / if I telle tales tuo or þre
                                    
                                      Of freres er I come to Sydingborne
                                    
                                      Þat I schal make þin herte for to morne

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 217
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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Collection: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
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